Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] I'm a proud member of Generation X. Do we have any other Gen Xers out there? We're the last cool generation. We had the Fonz, Evel Knievel, Magnum PI what do these younger folks have now? Dora, do you remember when we were the here for a good time, not a long time gang? You know, the plan was to live fast, die young.
[00:00:19] How's that working out for everybody? Yeah, we're on to plan B now, aren't we? Live slow, die eventually.
[00:00:27] Do you guys remember pre gaming? We would go to a buddy's house and before we went to the bar or the club, we do shots.
[00:00:35] Yeah, some of you guys might do a little MDMA on the way into the bar. You might do a couple bumps of coke just to stay on point.
[00:00:42] Boy, that's changed now, hasn't it? Yeah. I don't know what pre gaming looks for you guys now, but for me it's a nap. Yeah, the only pills I'm popping are Tylenol. While I try to think up an excuse not to go out before I hit the bar, I have to do a couple bumps of ibuprofen just to make it through the night.
[00:01:02] I still like to drink though. And I like to be social.
[00:01:05] You might say I still like to party, but I'm older. I get tired.
[00:01:11] The idea of putting in a full day, then showering, changing, catching an Uber, going somewhere loud, I'd rather get set on fire.
[00:01:19] And I don't like to stay up late. 2:00am that's when I get out of bed to go to the bathroom.
[00:01:25] I don't want to be outside my house, let alone in a club at 2am Think about what we used to do, what I'm sure some of you younger folks like to do nowadays. You start drinking at like, I don't know, 10pm you drink until 2 or 3 in the morning, Crash, wake up in time to go to work. It was fun. Then.
[00:01:45] Horrible. Now.
[00:01:46] You know what I like to do now? I like to start drinking like 10am drink until 2 or 3pm crash, wake up just in time to go to bed. It's beautiful. Yeah, it's fantastic.
[00:01:59] It's a waste of a day, sure, but that's why we get two days off day drinking, man, it's the best. I wish they had bars that catered to it. Imagine the Sunrise Bar and Grill. Appetizer platters with breakfast items on them.
[00:02:13] That happy hour that starts at 9am with $4 shafts.
[00:02:16] Come as you are. Don't worry about a sitter. The kids are already at daycare.
[00:02:21] Yeah, that'd be nice. The way it is now, I don't get to hang out with my friends very often. That's something that happens in your 50s. They're busy. I'm busy. Everybody's just so busy. Hanging out with your friends in your 50s is like sex after you've been married for a long time. It just doesn't happen. Except every now and then with somebody from work, and. And that doesn't count, I guess, unless you're at a Coldplay concert.
[00:02:44] Are there any Gen Z kids here tonight? Or maybe younger millennials? I know right now you're sitting there listening and thinking, God, listen to this old fuck.
[00:02:53] You think everyone from 40 to 65 is basically the same.
[00:02:57] Well, a note to the kids in the crowd. This is gonna be you soon enough. Yeah. Seems like a long ways away. It isn't.
[00:03:05] What do you got, 15, 20 years? You're over halfway there. Now you have a kid. This is waiting on the other side of that kid.
[00:03:14] It won't be long until you don't understand the younger folks any more than I understand you guys.
[00:03:19] You know, we're not the backwards conservative folks you think we are. Gen X, we were progressive in our time.
[00:03:26] Look at what we did. We normalized LGBTQ visibility. We. We paved the way for equity and inclusion. We broke the monoculture and made diversity cool.
[00:03:37] We invented the distrust of power long before it became fashionable. Granted, things keep moving, and eventually it all started to get confusing. I'll admit that I'm sometimes confused by the fact that gender is just a social and cultural concept that varies across time, place, and individual experience.
[00:03:57] My generation, we just didn't grow up thinking that having one washroom labeled Janes and the other washroom labeled Tarzans was offensive.
[00:04:07] And it surprised us to learn that it was.
[00:04:10] So enjoy the immoral upper hand. We have it, kids. Gen Alpha is out there, and they are already cooking up new and fun ways to surprise you. And then shame. You won't be that long until you're wishing someone, hey, congratulations on the new baby.
[00:04:24] And you're met with baby.
[00:04:28] We don't use the term baby. It's offensive. It implies a lot of negative things.
[00:04:34] We want our sovereign life form to decide their own developmental identity once they can understand their own emotional schema in a conscious manner. Oh, geez. Yeah, I apologize. Of course, of course. What is their name? Name?
[00:04:51] You mean the symbol of patriarchal and matriarchal oppression that our ego forces on them? Something to yell at them? Whenever they express their truth. They're not a dog. This is our child.
[00:05:03] They will select their own resonant identity once they have formed an awakened relationship with the universe.
[00:05:09] Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, but that's how you guys sound to us when you use terms like gender inclusive. Washroom.
[00:05:16] It's just a washroom.
[00:05:19] Mark my words, you guys will day drink, too. Sunrise Bar and Grill. I'm still looking for investors.
